glazing

Pluralglazings (some meanings)

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of glaze.

   The crew finished glazing the north side of the tower on Friday.

   The baker was glazing the pastries with warm apricot jam.

   Note

   Glaze drops its final e before -ing. With a thing as its object the form covers coating (glazing pastries, glazing pots) and fitting windows (glazing a tower); said of eyes, it describes a dull, bored look coming over them. In slang, glazing a person means praising them to an embarrassing degree, and another slang use is sexual, so that construction needs care.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The panes of glass or other see-through material set into a window or wall.

   Hail shattered the glazing on the greenhouse roof.

   The museum's new wing uses tinted glazing to shield the paintings from sunlight.

   Similarglass

3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act or process of applying a glaze to something or fitting it with glass, or one instance of the work.

   The glazing of the pots takes place after their first firing.

   Glazing of the new school should be finished before winter arrives.

4. 4
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The material applied when glazing something; a glaze.

   Scrape off every bit of cracked glazing before you set the new pane.

   The ham came out of the oven with a sticky brown-sugar glazing.

   Similarcoating

   Note

   Around windows the word can mean the compound that seals a pane rather than the pane itself: before new glazier's putty goes on, the bits of old glazing are scraped off. Do not confuse it with the glass in a window. For the shiny coat on a ham or a pot, the shorter glaze means the same and is the plainer choice.

5. 5
   noununcountable

   The art of covering objects with a glassy, vitreous coating.

   The workshop covers the basics of throwing, trimming and glazing.

   Glazing is a craft that can take a potter years to master.

6. 6
   noununcountable

   In architecture, all the windows of a building considered as a whole.

   The architect placed most of the glazing on the south side to catch the winter sun.

   The tower's glazing reflects the sky so well that the building almost disappears.

   Note

   Architects treat a building's windows as one surface that they measure rather than count, so they speak of how much glazing a facade has and which way it faces. This is the whole-building total, a step up from the glass in one window.

7. 7
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Semi-transparent colors painted thinly over others to change their effect.

   A thin glazing of red over the shadows gave the faces a soft glow.

   The restorer removed later glazings that had dulled the original colors.

   Note

   A painter's technique with its own optics: the thin film goes over paint that has already dried, and light passes through it and bounces back from the layer beneath. Stacked glazings give a depth and glow that mixing the same colors on the palette cannot. Because each layer can be counted, a restorer can take off later glazings and leave the original paint.

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